• alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml
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    7 months ago

    The US accepts Japan’s conditional surrender, the one that Japan was sending in hopes that the US would offer them a better deal now than after the USSR finished kicking them off the mainland.

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      7 months ago

      Geopolitically it was beneficial for the US to end the war without the Soviets getting involved, because then we’d have had two Iron Curtains